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Services

• Benefits calculators

  Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim

• Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

  Apply for or renew a Blue Badge, amend or cancel a saved application, track your application

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

  Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - how and when to claim, rates, eligibility

• Carer's Allowance

  Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700

• Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

  Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) money if you cannot work because of illness or disability - rates, eligibility, apply, assessment

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Guidance and regulation

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment guide for assessment providers

  Guidance

  16 July 2018

  Department for Work and Pensions

• VAT relief on certain goods if you have a disability

  Detailed guide

  6 January 2015

  HM Revenue & Customs

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP) handbook

  Guidance

  23 November 2017

  Department for Work and Pensions

• VAT relief on certain building work if you have a disability
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 January 2015
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• People with learning disabilities: making reasonable adjustments
  • Guidance
  • 9 May 2018
  • Public Health England

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News and communications

UK hosts event on inclusive evidence in Pakistan

14 September 2018

World news story

1. Consultation announced to improve learning disabilities staff training
   • 12 September 2018
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • News story
2. Call for tourism industry to do more to cater for disabled people
   • 24 August 2018
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Press release
3. Companies House awarded Gold in Mind's Workplace Wellbeing Index
   • 16 August 2018
   • Companies House
   • News story
4. £76 million a year to build homes for vulnerable people
   • 14 August 2018
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • News story

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Policy and engagement

• Carers action plan 2018 to 2020
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health and Social Care, Government Equalities Office , and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Policy paper
• Government response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme 2nd annual report
  • 12 September 2018
  • Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England
  • Policy paper
• Think Autism strategy: governance refresh 2018
  • 25 July 2018
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• Global Disability Summit - Charter for Change
  • 24 July 2018
  • Department for International Development
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

1. Department for Work & Pensions
2. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
3. Department of Health & Social Care
4. HM Revenue & Customs
5. Department for Transport

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1. Public Health England
2. Government Equalities Office
3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. Department for Education
5. Cabinet Office
6. Companies House
7. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
8. Department for International Development
9. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
10. HM Passport Office
11. Independent Case Examiner
12. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
13. Ministry of Justice

1. Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee